IA-DOM-DOIT-INTS4 CloudPlatformSystems Specialist

Title: Senior Cloud & Hybrid Infrastructure Specialist AWS

Location: Onsite - Des Moines IA

Duration: Contract Full-Time Long-Term Contract (extending beyond 7/1/2026)

Job Description: We are seeking an experienced Senior Cloud & Hybrid Infrastructure Specialist - also known as a Cloud Platform Engineer AWS Infrastructure Architect or Hybrid Cloud Systems Engineer - to lead enterprise modernization initiatives across hybrid cloud environments. This role drives AWS infrastructure engineering cloud migration and platform automation for a large-scale public sector IT organization.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Design administer and optimize AWS hybrid cloud environments (EC2 VPC IAM S3) to support enterprise-grade workloads and cloud-centric operations
• Lead AWS cloud migration efforts including legacy system assessments modernization roadmaps and workload readiness planning
• Enforce AWS security guardrails - encryption MFA IAM role boundaries RBAC and network segmentation - across hybrid cloud and on-premises systems
• Define Infrastructure as Code (IaC) patterns collaborate on Terraform module design and maintain IaC manifests in version-controlled environments
• Build and support CI/CD infrastructure pipelines across test staging and production; create release documentation and ensure platform standards consistency
• Implement FinOps practices: identify cost optimization opportunities through instance rightsizing storage tier adjustments and lifecycle automation
• Diagnose and resolve complex AWS identity network and compute issues; produce root-cause analyses troubleshooting workflows and long-term mitigation strategies
• Produce and maintain comprehensive documentation: architecture diagrams platform hardening guidelines operational guides audit evidence packages and executive briefings

Skills:

• AWS cloud infrastructure: EC2 VPC IAM S3 hybrid cloud architecture
• AWS IAM / RBAC configuration and enforcement
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform (required) Ansible (preferred)
• CI/CD pipeline infrastructure and release management
• Hybrid cloud workload patterns - identity authentication application services across cloud and on-premises
• AWS cloud migration and legacy system modernization
• FinOps / cloud cost estimation and optimization
• Backup disaster recovery RTO/RPO planning
• Performance monitoring dashboards - compute utilization storage I/O network throughput
• Network segmentation MFA encryption AWS guardrails
• Version-controlled documentation: architecture diagrams IaC manifests operational procedures
• Audit evidence production: configuration exports pipeline logs compliance documentation

Qualifications:

• US Citizenship required
• 7 years designing and administering AWS environments (EC2 VPC IAM S3)
• 5 years hybrid cloud platform engineering across all required skill areas
• Experience with AWS IAM/RBAC and FinOps cost estimation required
• Ansible experience a plus